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98 ELIZABETH BXACKWEHL.
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To The Editors Of The English Woman's Jo...
college were closed against her . The faculty had been censured by the Medical Society of the State for having admitted a female
student into the college , and they had therefore determined to exclude her . Leaving Chicago , she at once resumed her
applications to other colleges ; and at length succeeded in gaining admission , with permission to stand her examination for the diploma , in
the College of Cleveland ( Ohio ) , where she completed the interrupted course of her studies , whose conclusion is thus described in
a letter written shortly afterwards by Dr . Elizabeth : — two " Ernily is now sis Dr ters . Emil ! y She Blackwell ; you have the honour at Cleveland of possessing after
passing professional a triumphant examination graduated , being congratula very quietly ted thereon by her , proinvolved fessors , and in t reading he Stud her y of T Medicine hesis , whi . '" ch is an excellent one , on ' The Principles
In the spring of 1854 Dr . Emily returned to Europe for the further prosecution of her Medical studies . In Edinburgh she was
admitted to the Xiying-in Hospital of that city , and studied Midwifery and Female Diseases , for eight months , with Dr . Simpson .
In 1855 she visited Paris , "where she folio wed the Clinical Lectures of the most eminent Physicians and Surgeons of Paris , in the great
Hospitals of the Hotel-Dieu , Beaujon , and St . Louis ; visited assiduously at the Hopital des Enfans Mdlades ; and spent several
months as a resident pupil in the vast Lying-in Hospital of the Maternite . In 1850 she visited at St . Bartholomew ' s and other
Hospitals of London . The scope of these studies may be inferred from testimonials presented to her by the distinguished Physicians
and Surgeons under whom they were carried on . * * Of these Testimonials we select the following , which will doubtless be read with
interest by our readers : — From James Y . Simpson , Esq ., M . D Edinburg ., Professor h . of Midwifery in the University of
" My dear Miss Blackwell , " I do think that you have assumed a position for which you are excellently men sho qualified ul t pro be , gr a f n u esses d lly , and w it hich is perfectl ev you iden y may tl educated y a , as matter a t ; eacher and of the I , firml do utmost a y grea belie t importance amount ve that i f t that good would female . be As this phy ficul sicians move t or
impossible to find , for that purpose , any one better qualified than yourself . and After best op you port were unity introduced of testing the to me extent by P of y f essor medical Sharpe acq y of uiremen London ts , durin I had g t t he p faires eriod t
of eight months when you studied here with me , and I can have no hesitation in stating to wh you — w what as bett I have ac often uaint " stated with to the others ancien — t that and I modern have rarel l y met with or more a young learn p hy sician the q anguages
literature relation to , s patients cience , and , and practical in your details kindly of care his and profession treatment - , Permit of them me , , to I add ever , tha found t in you your a
' most womanly woman . ' Believe me , with very kindest wishes for your success , " Yours , very respectfully , " James Y . Simpson . "
From M . Huguier , M . D ., Paris . Faculty " I , the of undersi Medicine gned of , Member Paris , Surgeon of the Imperial of the Beaujon Academy Hosp of ital Medicine , & c , , certif Professor y that of Miss the
Emily Blackwell , Doctor of Medicine , has followed , with zeal and exactitude , my clinical
98 Elizabeth Bxackwehl.
98 ELIZABETH BXACKWEHL .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 98, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/26/
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